Abstract

Liquid argon is known as an excellent target material for WIMP dark matter direct search experiment. Relatively small atomic mass (A=40) gives high nuclear recoil energy for WIMP-Ar nuclear scattering, thus it potentially has high sensitivity for low mass WIMP (<10 GeV/c2) . There are two crucial R&D topics for the liquid argon detector to explore such low mass WIMP signal, namely, deep understanding the liquid argon scintillation and ionization process for low energy deposition (<10 keV), and increasing the signal light yield by improving the argon scintillation light collection efficiency. In this paper, we report recent results from Waseda university liquid argon test facility.

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